Powering Communities

Our microgrids can be independent of each other or create fail-over isolation within the public grid to ensure the stability of critical infrastructure, allowing energy suppliers to be responsive to community needs.

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Microgrids grow communities

Smitz
Laboratories’ decentralized microgrids work in rural areas or
city centers from Mombasa to Kinshasa growing communities and developing energy
independent districts in areas that critically require economic development.

ELECTRIFYING ONE COMMUNITY AT A TIME

Microgrids
provide an excellent opportunity for vibrant public-private
partnerships by turning seed funding from public sector grants into price subsidies for customers, creating opportunities for new
developments that promote commercial activity while providing affordable
power to local communities.

THE OLD WAY OF ELECTRIFICATION

Traditional
electrical infrastructure is expensive and built around large, central
baseline power plants reliant on coal or other carbon-based extractive industry fuels.
Traditional power infrastructure creates a high barrier to entry, encouraging monopolistic practices that have to be constantly restrained by regulation.

THE NEW WAY OF ELECTRIFICATION

Our microgrids make power accessible to everybody by enabling community
participation and competitive markets of low cost suppliers that can take advantage of just-in-time acquisitions, capturing savings from falling renewable prices.

RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

Community-based
energy solutions built on renewable energy sources
such as a wind
turbines, hydrothermal, or solar cells ensure that communities have independent, diverse, and resilient energy sources and suppliers.

Electrification in the age of climate change and population growth

Across
the region climate change presents the greatest threat to economic
prosperity and political stability. Nigeria’s urban centers are expected
to add 212 million new residents by 2050 further straining the region’s
largest economy and most populace country.

Now is the time to make smarter investments

The world can no longer rely on fossil fuel monopolies to
meet the electrification needs of growing urban populations and rural populations without
exacerbating the impact of economic inequality and climate change including food insecurity, prolonged drought,
rising sea levels and extreme weather.

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THE SMITZ LABORATORIES VALUE

Our
Sustainable Growth practice provides support for local
startups, governments, and investors seeking to maximize economic productivity.
We use big data aggregation and analytics that accurately model
the problem and solution to enable smart investments in sustainable and scalable infrastructure models suited for the modern economies of smart cities.

Smitz Laboratories is committed to developing smart new frameworks for investments in the economic developments we see as
necessary to move away from dependency on
extractive industries and volatile commodities markets for a strong, stable, and sustainable future.